They have no reason to change that. They will long term want the exact same thing that twitter has, access to all user data and control of the platform.

I recently learned that this is actually used in the UK.

So why does the official site not allow direct downloads? Why do we need projects like yt-dlp to download? Why is YouTube constantly changing so that yt-dlp and others need to keep up to keep being able to download?

Edit: and with that explanation nothing would be piracy?

Ah yeah, I get what you mean. But basically anything where people cannot directly download a video but have to resort to some additional software to download the video, that’s basically piracy.

Now some people won’t know about yt-dlp and the sorts, so they maybe even do go for torrents, again, why not? If you are such a fan of Mr. Beast (no judgement here) and that dude has surely hundreds if not thousands of videos by now, a torrent could include all of a series of his videos that you are interested in. So it is actually then more convenient to torrent them instead of downloading them one by one.

Tldr different people have different interests and usecases

Why tf not. Videos get deleted at times. Or for offline watching. Lots of reasons really.

At some point those numbers mean nothing anymore. What then? Maybe we are already there.

Yeah, who the fuck “desrcribes” themselves as a Nazi? Ah right, a Nazi would do that.

Soooo, not offshore?

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I have tried that one straight from fdroid and it hasn’t worked for me unfortunately

Good to hear but it hasn’t been updated yet as far as I can see.

Innertune stopped working for me a few days ago. I know they are working on a bugfix but so far alternatives like the fork of it from a user called Mal…something did not work for me either.

Yeah, not sure why OP is so damn condescending here. I just tried this app today because Innertune is currently having issues playing songs and this one works.

The interface is super confusing, tapping some buttons changes other buttons next to them without any apparent reason. No explanations what symbols mean. It took me a while to find where the “liked” songs end up. Then I later tried to find it again and just couldn’t find it anymore.

Nice bait in the post title.

I use this daily and just wanted to highlight two downsides: 1 some instances are quite slow in response 2 some instances are non English, so everything except search results might be unreadable unless you know that language

The second one has been happening less frequently recently though, not sure if there are just more English instances or some other reason behind it.

Are you serious? It’s Microsoft.

That’s a big point that also usually isn’t really distinguished in all these studies, especially the ones about children and screen time.

I feel there are differences between just watching cartoons and playing some involving game.

Also, just walking by a TV that’s on is also screen time, or not? Is the TV running in the background at home screen time when you only look at it 5 minutes here and there?

I’d be happy if those studies would clearly state, 4 hours social media per day is bad. Or 4 hours watching TV with at least 30 minutes long sessions is bad. Stuff like that.

Well yeah. Turns out you are not the average user. Don’t mean that neither as a compliment nor an insult.

In episode 2F09, when Itchy plays Scratchy’s skeleton like a xylophone, he strikes the same rib in succession, yet he produces two clearly different tones. I mean, what are we to believe, that this is a magic xylophone, or something? Ha ha, boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.